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Originally Posted by RWJ
Surely they'd be better off developing a business model that works in reality, rather than insisting on maintaining a business strategy f or the world they wish existed?
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You just said why: they prefer to live in the world they wish existed.
You seen this Tor editors quote?
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-...eir-customers/
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He also offers up comments from Tor husband and wife editors Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the matter. Patrick’s seems to be in essence that publishers are trying to do a better job of reaching out to readers, but it’s a little tricky since they hadn’t needed to think about that kind of thing before about ten years ago. This seems reasonable. However, Teresa suggests that the people complaining about the publishers are mostly frustrated would-be authors whose books have been rejected, and that “clever workaround publishing schemes” are the ones that really don’t pay attention to the reader.
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That's who makes those decisions.